The Jordan Lake watershed question is due a public hearing at the Durham County commissioners' meeting Monday, but there probably won't be much to hear.
And County Manager Mike Ruffin wants to get the word out: If you're planning to attend, wait until Oct. 12.
"It's kind of a procedural kind of step," he said.
The contentious relocation (or re-relocation) of a watershed boundary in southwest Durham County has two parts (not to mention a host of related issues): a comprehensive land-use plan amendment and a zoning change.
The Haw River Assembly, which favors leaving the boundary where it is, has requested a postponement on the zoning part, to which it is entitled upon request under Durham's ordinance.
But there's no such provision for a land-use plan change, City/County Planning Director Steve Medlin said. So that related but technically separate item remains for the commissioners to deal with Monday.
Medlin and Ruffin said a "straw poll" of the county board indicates a preference to open a public hearing on the plan amendment and then immediately continue it until it and the rezoning can be dealt with at the same time.
"To inconvenience people as little as we can," Ruffin said.
